brooklynmarieHere's my #introduction post. I'm Brooke Binkowski, once a career reporter and now managing editor of TruthOrFiction.com, a debunking and counterdisinformation site. I've spent the last few years pretty much trying to prevent exactly the outcome we're living through right now and I'm super salty about it, but happy to find Mastodon, which is currently giving me a lot of hope for the future of the internet. Hope it continues.
Shakenbeck
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Associate Professor @ University of Cambridge. #Archaeology of the first millennium CE. Teaching #GlobalMiddleAges. Writing a book on the #Danube in late antiquity. Also keen on #cycling and #audax
I'm very happy that this paper that Ulf Büntgen and I wrote together has finally come out. Using annually resolved #hydroclimate data we found that central Europe experienced increasingly dry summers from the 420 to the 450s CE (and beyond). This coincided with some of the most devastating raids by #Huns on #Roman territory. We argue that Huns used raiding as a buffering strategy to mitigate against dry summers which made it harder for them to pasture their herds. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/drought-encouraged-attilas-huns-to-attack-the-roman-empire-tree-rings-suggest
Cambridge University Library has quite a spectacular #ChristmasTree. It’s about 5 m high!
Zeke HausfatherSince the mid-1800s we can effectively reconstruct global temperatures from weather stations and ocean measurements. Before then, we have to rely on climate "proxy" measurements. Over at @[email protected] we've put together an interactive climate proxy map: https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/how-proxy-data-reveals-climate-of-earths-distant-past/
sunil pai, inc.This site needs way more shitpostery for any chance of survival. Have a drink and post some unhinged shit, I know y’all have it in you
Stephanie J Lahey, PhDToday is the 3rd Sunday of #Advent, ‘Gaudete Sunday’, named for the Introit (entrance antiphon) for today’s Mass, “Gaudete in Domino semper” (‘Rejoice in the Lord always’)
📷: oldest complete surviving neumed mass antiphonary (Einsiedeln, 960–970)
#MedievalManuscripts #MedievalMusic #Musicology @bookhistodons @medievodons
📷: oldest complete surviving neumed mass antiphonary (Einsiedeln, 960–970)
#MedievalManuscripts #MedievalMusic #Musicology @bookhistodons @medievodons
Dr Geoff M Smith 🇬🇧🇪🇺RT @BZaiken
Amazing new research in the international journal Nature—using environmental DNA, the team was able to gain incredible details of a 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland—and with my illustration on the cover!! ❤️🦣
Amazing new research in the international journal Nature—using environmental DNA, the team was able to gain incredible details of a 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland—and with my illustration on the cover!! ❤️🦣
David Njoku"Yes, but where are you REALLY from?"
We've all had this question. All of us.
Miko FlohrSo I have a new header picture. This is my big database, which includes an awful lot of Roman inscriptions and buildings. On this map, you see Latin inscriptions referring to freedmen.
It is a rough #bigdata approach, but it tells you quite a little bit of what is happening in the Roman world.
Particularly, this map highlights the geographical unevenness of the #RomanEmpire. This was a hugely diverse empire, with big differences from region to region.
Lego Grad StudentRe-opening a paper draft he has not touched in months, the grad student has no idea what he was thinking.
